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MM's avatar

After forcing us to watch a live streamed genocide for the past 3 years, this was just the next logical step.

Susan T's avatar

Livestreaming an execution is incredibly sick. The genocide that has been happening for 3 years in even sicker. But it is not only Trump who promotes this thinking. The UN allowed Netanyahu to speak and talk about how Israel "had no choice" after October 7th. They pretend that it started on October 7, 2023. And other leaders have watched and not done anything at all to stop any of it. Almost every leader in the Western world has supported this genocide. A major Canandian newspaper suggested that Jews are obliged to kill Avi Lewis, the newly elected leader of the NDP, because he speaks out against Israel's genocide. The zionists think they are special people because they think they are God's chosen people. They think they have the right to do this. Yes, livestreaming an execution is the next "logical" step for unethical, immoral people like zionists and those that take their money to get elected.

MM's avatar

Sadly, the UN has to go along with whatever the US government wants, including having the Palestinian delegation denied their visas, just because a genocidal, sociopathic leader decides it should be so.

Lisa Dixon's avatar

All pretense of the West being 'civilised' is well and truly buried

What a brutal macabre society we live in

Chilling

Yes, what do we do???

The Revolution Continues's avatar

Shut the entire f*cking thing down.

X K's avatar

"Run commercials for Kalshi and Crypto dot com

and recruitment ads for the US Marine Corps."

"And with them of Palestinian children's corpses."

Ginnie's avatar

let this be a mask off moment. Let everyone see the ugliness within that has turned into the ugliness without.

Tim Melin's avatar

After years of pretending that we were “the good guys” , the raw truth is out there for all to see. We are the bad guys. The murderers. The baby killers. We are the backers of all that happens in the Middle East. Did people forget the atrocities of Vietnam? Iraq? Slavery? The genocide of Native Americans? It’s out in the open now. No grey area. Our government is a killing machine.

Chang Chokaski's avatar

We were ALWAYS the bad guys - even before the 2 world wars and the 20th century. But we (the US and more generally the West) have had our brains addled and saturated by narratives and revisionist history and indoctrinated from birth with "American exceptionalism".

People like Michael Parenti and others have been writing to this effect for over half a century now, but who reads books any longer? Everyone's on social media and other such information sources.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

I suggest folks read "The Rediscovery of America" by Ned Blackhawk. Genocide is in the USA's DNA. It's been there right there from the start, written in our founding documents which demonstrate how much the white slave owners wanted to get rid of the "savages".

Chang Chokaski's avatar

I need to read that book too! Thanks for the suggestion, TRC!

Jon Olsen's avatar

"We are the bad guys. The murderers. The baby killers. "

Hey Tim, what's with this "we?" I'm not, are you? I doubt it. "We" is inclusive. I refer to that predator class as "they," and encourage all to do so. If we (the real "we") had no say at all in these crimes, and in fact have opposed them, we (ordinary citizens) are not guilty, but DO have a responsibility to oppose these evil deeds.

Barrie's avatar

And the USA calls its self the leader of the free world. This kind of execution is what dictators do. And what does the USA do to dictators, they over run these countries directly or by proxy. The USA is now the leader in the pack of evil countries. And how does Autralia,s government rewardsuch evil. We give them Australian land for their military bases.

Brianna Amore's avatar

The only other nations that live stream their executions are Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea. And now the United States joins that Axis of Evil.

Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"And now the United States joins that Axis of Evil"

Why are you calling Iran, Afghanistan and North Korea evil?

The AXIS of EVIL (IMO) is America, Canada, U.K., Australia, Israel, and other Western nations that have been supporting Israel in the Genocide of Palestinians.

jamenta's avatar

A snuff film - to make America great again.

Jon Olsen's avatar

Down with Pete Hogsbreath!

Constantine's avatar

Oh gosh. If they announced they planned to televise the executions of the Epstein perpetrators the cheers would ring all the way to Heaven.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

We would be so lucky. I'd just like to see the Epstein creeps in jail. For life.

Chang Chokaski's avatar

TRC, you're too kind. My sense of justice and moral retribution is much harsher - I would prefer executions - of those you mention above and also billionaires and so many other psychopaths, sociopaths, and specimens of pure evil on this planet - I'm not going to be shy about it and pretend to be a moral virtue signaller.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

Oh, I’m not all that kind… Most pedophiles once they are in prison tend to wind up dead in short order—because many of their fellow inmates were molested as children and hate pedophiles and don’t care to add more years to their sentences. They'd wish they'd been executed by the state rather than by their fellow inmates!

dale ruff's avatar

The Nazis were among the first to discover the power of the visual propaganda of the deed, the theater of,terror to dramatize state power, intimidate the population, and turn violence into a public spectacle, a kind of spectacle of sovereign cruelty.

Michel Foucault, in Discipline and Punish (1975), described public executions as a political ritual through which the state reasserts its authority.

"The public execution did not re-establish justice; it reactivated power."

He described this as the Theater of Terror.

This is naked fascism , the choreography of brutality less to punish that to warn the millions watching to communicate this could happen to anyone, to create fear and obedience.

I cannot believe we are living to witness the unmasked reality of fascist cruelty as spectacle.

Sinclair Lewis warned us in 1936 of how this would come to America: "The main character, Buzz Windrip, appeals to voters with a mix of crass language and nativist ideology. Once elected, he solidifies his power by energizing his base against immigrants, people on welfare, and the liberal press."

Fascism isn't coming; it is here. If you never believed in the lesser evil, it is time to revise your thinking!

Naomi's avatar

So true! Thanks for writing this. This is just the progression of America. This is where the West & our world is at. People need to stop making this about Trump & realise he & his entourage couldn't have done any of this if it wasn't for every President & every bit of corruption that came before him.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

If the US can openly fund a genocide, bomb school children, and starve Cubans, why wouldn't it murder people on live stream? Psychopaths gotta psychopath, right? (SIGH.)

Naomi's avatar

And, no doubt, they'll make money off it.

The Revolution Continues's avatar

That's the name of the game for the American war machine, ain't it? Make war--make profits!

Vanessa's avatar

This is the natural progression of a society built on the genocide of indigenous peoples and chattel slavery. A country whose citizens who viewed lynchings of Black people as family entertainment.

Every time a fellow American protests, “but this isn’t who we are!”, I remind them this is EXACTLY who we are.

I am so deeply and utterly disgusted. We are ruled by psychopaths.

Rohrdommel's avatar

I would think it is the natural progression of a society agreeing to be ruled.

Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"We are ruled by psychopaths"

It's more than that. We ELECT such psychopaths. Some of us even worship such psychopaths. Unfortunately, the psychopathy and sociopathy runs deeper than just the "top level" of the power elite...that's what truly horrifies me. What have we become as a society and culture?

Eat me's avatar

Vile sick depraved amerikan administration. Sick bastards

Patricia Blair's avatar

The utter horror of Americas immoral, depraved government under Trump! Unconscionable! But understandable as to some Americas ability to watch and support Israel’s genocide of babies, children, families in Palestine and Trumps immoral bombing of Iranian schools, etc.

Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"The utter horror of Americas immoral, depraved government under Trump"

Nope - don't make this about Trump. This is NOT a partisan thing. Remember Genocide Joe?

SW's avatar

This man could have been simply left in prison to eventually die as we all are destined to. Most people — probably 99.99% — have completely forgotten about him so this staging serves a purpose but I’m not sure what. He’s a Muslim so maybe BiBi thinks the way to make us forget (even temporarily) about Zionist crimes is part of the propaganda assault he’s promised us.

If they go through with this I pray everyone will refuse to watch by turning off all devices when it’s scheduled.

Chang Chokaski's avatar

Yes - I think you're right. Propaganda does seem to be the primary objective for deciding to "stream" the killing of another human. I mean, what other reason is there to stream such a thing?

Naji's avatar

Capital punishment in the US is just grotesque.

It only serves the insatiable vindictiveness of a brutal society

jamenta's avatar

It compounds the problem. If the government says it's ok to kill someone - who's to say you aren't justified?

Brianna Amore's avatar

My heart is heavy

My head is confused

And my aching little soul

Has started burning blue

Hand Signals 4 The Blind's avatar

The epitome of Western values in their finest moment

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

أحسنت النشر والقول – سلام غزة و القدس عليكم - العزة والنصر حليف محورالمقاومة وحلفاءها والذلة والعار لمحور الشر وجماعة أبستين (امريكا و بريطانيا وفرنسا وتركيا والسعودية وقطر والامارات و دول الناتو والنازية الجديدة والماسونية والصهيونية و أسرائيل) وحلفاءه

longletters's avatar

Everyone who has a supported phone model, should have to control their watching experience with their eye movements, in case that can nudge them to see themselves.